Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Ahead of the Commonwealth Games, the Noida Authority officials are planning to clean up the streets and drains to give a completely fresh look to foreign visitors. In its master plan to overhaul the conditions of existing drains which have been the cause for many residents raising complaints of foul …
Since the Uttar Pradesh government stayed away from the meeting held at Orchha in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday to discuss development of Bundelkhand through NREGS, the Centre has decided to hold a separate meeting for UP after the by-elections in November. The Congress, at the same time, accused UP of …
LUCKNOW: As rivers emerging from Nepal showed no signs of relent, the floods in over a dozen districts of east UP and Terai region claimed 10 more lives on Monday, taking the toll to over 30. Though the state administration claimed that relief operation is underway at war footing, hundreds …
Lucknow: In a bid to promote use of solar power in Uttar Pradesh, rural banks in the State will provide easy loans to village committees under micro-finance scheme to enable houses to install solar lighting systems. Rural banks will provide a loan of Rs 10,000 to every home using solar …
The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to boycott a high-level meeting called by the Centre on Tuesday to discuss the development of Bundelkhand through the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). Apart from Union Minister of State for Rural Development Pradeep Jain, the meeting
In 2006, Vikram Puri, CEO of Mahindra Shubhlabh, contracted farmers in Punjab to grow basmati rice for Rs 1,350 per quintal. Global demand, supply fluctuations and local speculative buying pushed the prices to Rs 1,400-1,500 per quintal and about 2,000 farmers in Jalandhar and Kapurthala reneged on their contracts, causing …
LUCKNOW: With a grim power situation staring at the face of Uttar Pradesh, UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) has made additional arrangement of 1,400 MW during Diwali season. Well-placed sources in corporation said that of the total, the maximum of 600 MW would be bought from Tata power, while M/s …
Vultures might be getting spotted in the wild but their near-stagnant population does not make it look like a real revival. Lucknow: The decline of vultures has been the fastest among many other species. Their near-extinction in past one decade, ever since 40 vulture deaths were reported from Rajasthan in …
LUCKNOW/ BAHRAICH: With their habitat under two meters of water, survival poses a tough challenge to tiger and leopard cubs in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve of Uttar Pradesh. Flood situation in Bahraich and Pilibhit has worsened dramatically over the past three days after Nepal released over 5 lakh cusec of water …
With their area restricted to a 27-sq. km enclosure, their increasing number is pushing them to edge Dudhwa (Uttar Pradesh): A fierce turf war is raging among rhinos in the Dudhwa National Park. With the rhino population rising to 29 with the birth of another calf in mid-September, the fight …
Amidst reports of synthetic milk being supplied in the open market, the state government has asked various cooperative milk federations to pull up their socks or get ready to face action. There is a shortfall of around 60,000 litre milk everyday. Kanpur is bearing the brunt with a daily shortfall …
Yadvendra Ram Tripathi, of Sariyya village under the Khajni development block in Gorakhpur district, a graduate, spurned the offer of a government job and took up farming in his native village. Thanks to Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) under the Centrally sponsored
The sudden burst of rain across Uttar Pradesh may have brought respite from the humid weather, but for the farmers across the state this has been a double blow. The state
One hundred and sixty-four tigers in Uttar Pradesh have gone missing in the past four years and the state wildlife authorities are conveniently blaming the census techniques for the decline in numbers. In the tiger census conducted about four years ago, the number of tigers was 273, which has now …
LUCKNOW: `Wildlife Week, 2009' an awareness programme about the conservation of wildlife of the country concluded on Wednesday at Regional Science City (RSC). The programme was organised by the department of Zoology, Lucknow University and UP Council of Science and Technology. A good turnout of students at RSC marked the …
LUCKNOW: The planning related to wildlife conservation in the country might get a clear direction now, since the first national level database on wildlife crime has been compiled and completed. National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) which is the head organisation for wildlife conservation has got the crime figures compiled in …
Protesting against largescale land acquisition for the proposed Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) in four districts of west Uttar Pradesh, the Communist Party of India announced a five-month-long agitation plan on Wednesday. The only demand was to cancel the notification by the state government, issued on July 21, for …
Express News Service A 16th century castle in Kargil, a 17th century monastery in Ladakh, a historic civic centre in Shimla and a palace in Uttar Pradesh figure in the list of 93 heritage sites in 47 countries which the world is at the risk of losing. The list
Giving rest of a big political debate on land acquisition which had arisen following the notification of over 800 villages to be included Yamuna Expressway authority, the UP government has clarified that the village land was not being acquired for the expressway, but just being notified to prevent unplanned development …
